From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with archive (Exim 4.43) id 1K1MRS-0006VC-RG for mharc-grub-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 28 May 2008 10:15:50 -0400 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1K1MRR-0006UR-EM for grub-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 28 May 2008 10:15:49 -0400 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1K1MRP-0006TG-PU for grub-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 28 May 2008 10:15:49 -0400 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=57966 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1K1MRP-0006T2-IF for grub-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 28 May 2008 10:15:47 -0400 Received: from aybabtu.com ([69.60.117.155]:33742) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1K1MRO-0004Mc-TR for grub-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 28 May 2008 10:15:47 -0400 Received: from [192.168.10.10] (helo=thorin) by aybabtu.com with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1K1MR6-0006ps-CM for grub-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 28 May 2008 16:15:31 +0200 Received: from rmh by thorin with local (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1K1MQr-0007Jj-GH for grub-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 28 May 2008 16:15:13 +0200 Date: Wed, 28 May 2008 16:15:13 +0200 From: Robert Millan To: The development of GRUB 2 Message-ID: <20080528141513.GH26495@thorin> References: <48398A66.5010902@isaac.cedarswampstudios.org> <483AB96E.2030807@isaac.cedarswampstudios.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: <483AB96E.2030807@isaac.cedarswampstudios.org> Organization: free as in freedom X-Message-Flag: Worried about Outlook viruses? Switch to Thunderbird! www.mozilla.com/thunderbird X-Debbugs-No-Ack: true User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11) X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. Subject: Re: x86_64 EFI support for grub2 ? X-BeenThere: grub-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: The development of GRUB 2 List-Id: The development of GRUB 2 List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 28 May 2008 14:15:49 -0000 On Mon, May 26, 2008 at 09:21:50AM -0400, Isaac Dupree wrote: > Bean wrote: > >>>BTW, I notice that grub-mkimage for efi convert elf to efi internally, > >>>how about use the gnu-efi tool chain, this could make it more portable > >>>between ia32 and x86_64. > >>Is its license sufficiently compatible? Is it maintained sufficiently (or > >>else, can we take on some of the maintainership burden?) > > > >I'm no expert on license, but it's a shared library, we only need to > >use its interface, I guess this should be ok. > > if it's GPL version 2 (but not 3) then it's probably incompatible, for > example, if it's shared library. gnu-efi is licensed under GPL 2 or later. There's no problem linking GRUB with it. Thourhg, if it's just a binary file converter license compatibility would probably not be required anyway. -- Robert Millan I know my rights; I want my phone call! What good is a phone call… if you are unable to speak? (as seen on /.)